]]>https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/happy-international-fluevog-day/feed/2IlanaVog Populi: New Pinup or Fellowship Hi?https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/vog-populi-new-pinup-or-fellowship-hi/
https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/vog-populi-new-pinup-or-fellowship-hi/#respondWed, 23 Apr 2008 07:47:22 +0000http://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/vog-populi-new-pinup-or-fellowship-hi/ If you receive the Fluevog newsletter or are a fan of Fluevog on Facebook, I’m about to bore you with stuff you’ve already heard.

Fluevog have a Vog Populi poll going, asking whether to expand the Pinup or FellowshipHi families.

I haven’t been able to vote yet. I just can’t decide. The Pinup family is a gorgeous WWII throwback style with some fascinating heel detail – I have two pairs (including the gorgeous maroon Miss November). I only have one pair from the FellowshipHi family and it has a very comfy toe shape, but the heel is a bit dull. However, it’s a FellowshipHi up there in the Flueblog banner, so that has to count for something.

]]>https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/vog-populi-new-pinup-or-fellowship-hi/feed/0IlanavogpopuliFluevog Sighting: Sarah Polleyhttps://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/fluevog-sighting-sarah-polley/
https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/fluevog-sighting-sarah-polley/#respondMon, 21 Apr 2008 19:18:02 +0000http://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/fluevog-sighting-sarah-polley/State funding for kink. I think this is something we can all get behind. By getting behind this, we also get behind Sarah Polley which is definitely not a bad thing.

Polley went to Ottawa to fight for some bill that would ensure that movies with more interesting ratings would continue to get funding, and she did it in Fluevogs.

Rachel Bilson, who is just all-around adorable, butched it up a bit recently in a pair of Fluevog Big Johns.

Let’s hope the Devil has a cute allergy, because it would seem Bilson has foregone Satan-resistance by wearing these Angel shoes without their Angel soles. There’s definitely something funky going on with the heel and bottom of those motorcycle boots, and close inspection of all the photos of said event would seem to reveal after-market non-genuine retreads. Thank God for the paparazzi and their cataloguing of the mundane and the everyday, or we’d never know these things.

UPDATE: You know, on second thoughts, I think Bilson is actually wearing the Baby Ruth. They’re an F-Shoe, not an Angel, so my dribble about Satan-resistance stands. Remarkably similar shoes, though the Baby Ruth would seem to be current. They’re available at Zappos or Fluevog.com

I don’t eat meat, and am amused by the automatic social conscience credit earned by this choice. In fact, I think little of the terrible treatment of livestock and care less of the impact on my karma. The truth is, a steak is an awfully overwhelming commitment, especially when it tastes kind of gross. But I’m happy to go sorting through my rubbish bin, frown at SUV drivers and lament Big Business. I’m always willing to embrace a cause at little personal cost.

I applaud the environmentalists who think daily of their footprint. I think of mine too, and I insist it not be ugly.

Because Fluevogs are never of a time, they’re never past their time. You never spend a couple of hundred dollars on a Fluevog and know you’ll only wear them for a season. You can always wear your Fluevogs and know that they’ll always be noticed, appreciated or scorned on their own merits, not due to vagaries of opinion.

When I was a child, I imagined all the shoes that I’d buy when my feet stopped growing. I imagined a pair of bone court shoes that I’d own in three different heights. I’m happy to report that, fully-grown, I own neither bone shoes nor court shoes nor shoes in multiple heights. But my Fluevog investments are of the same ilk: shoes I imagine wearing forever.

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]]>https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/reason-49-why-we-love-fluevogs-theyre-timeless/feed/0Ilanaclock2The Other Half of Fox & Fluevoghttps://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/the-other-half-of-fox-fluevog/
https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/the-other-half-of-fox-fluevog/#respondMon, 17 Mar 2008 18:40:25 +0000http://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/the-other-half-of-fox-fluevog/ We’ve all heard the story of Fluevog: Origins. John Fluevog and a friend happened upon a container of pristine vintage shoes, and promptly set up Fox & Fluevog through which to flog them off. At some point, they decided to design and manufacture their own shoes, and somewhere along the line a fissure presented through the ampersand, and they went their separate ways.

We all know the conclusion to the Fluevog part of the story. I’d presumed that Peter Fox has wandered off somewhere and sunk into obscurity. My ignorance can be blamed upon my interest in wedding shoes predeceasing even John’s stab at the genre.

]]>https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/the-other-half-of-fox-fluevog/feed/0Ilanapeter foxFluevog Spotlight: Rococco Desdemonahttps://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/fluevog-spotlight-rococco-desdemona/
https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/fluevog-spotlight-rococco-desdemona/#respondWed, 12 Mar 2008 08:52:29 +0000http://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/fluevog-spotlight-rococco-desdemona/ I have an urge to dry hump just about every member of the Operetta/Soprano families (oh, the teal Inge, the green Hildegard, the red Maria), but Catholic nuns taught me the virtue of denial for denial’s sake, and it’s Lent, so let’s elsewhere.

D’Artagnan and Puss in Boots meet Baroque on your auntie’s sofa with the Rococco Desdemona.

With a heel almost as distinctive as that famous cloven one, the Rococcos have been making striking forays into Grand National territory of darkness and vice. The Desdemona backs off a little from the depravity and instead goes in a more opulent, lush direction.

If you love these boots but are frightened of the price tag, the Friend Mallory is similar, but built on the more boring but cheaper (and very comfy) Chinese heel and sells for about USD$200 less. Apparently you can also wear those ones folded up, over the knee.

Verdict: I wouldn’t marry these boots, but I’d definitely be interested in a sword fight. If you know what I mean. And I think you do.

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]]>https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/fluevog-spotlight-rococco-desdemona/feed/0Ilanarococco desdemonaFluevog Returns to Vancouver’s Gastownhttps://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/fluevog-returns-to-vancouvers-gastown/
https://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/fluevog-returns-to-vancouvers-gastown/#respondMon, 10 Mar 2008 18:20:59 +0000http://flueblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/fluevog-returns-to-vancouvers-gastown/If you should go out to Vancouver today, you’re in for a big surprise. After years of flagshippiness on grubby Granville, Fluevog have set up shop once again in their original stomping-ground in tourist-ridden Gastown. This is incredibly convenient. You can now buy your penis shoes and stuffed beavers without venturing more than a few footsteps.